If they’re enrolled while you’re not playing them, you can’t guarantee their success. So I don’t have them re-enroll at the end of each term. You can have them live off campus like I do (it’s easier to teleport to class from Gibbs Hill, for example) or you can use dorms and just move them temporarily to another lot in between terms when they need to enroll again. It takes at least a week depending on when they enroll because sometimes an extra day gets eaten up waiting for a term to start.
They lose scholarships when they don’t re-enroll immediately but not the Merit one, from my experience. It’s so cheap to begin with, this doesn’t matter to me.
(When the term ends at 6pm, you get grades and are asked if you want to re-enroll. Some people miraculously remember to save their game just before this magic hour, and they apparently are confident enough in their grades that they will switch households before that happens, avoiding the prompt to re-enroll. Played sims do not re-enroll automatically, so they are on hold until you play that household again, scholarships intact. This is a great strategy in theory but I am not comfortable with doing it this way. You might like it.)
The final term works a bit differently if you have multiple students in the same household and they go to different schools. If they all graduate the same day, you can’t attend graduations from both schools because they happen so close together timingwise and you can’t be in 2 places at once. This doesn’t keep them from graduating but it means they won’t get their graduation picture. So I stagger their enrollment dates on the final term so they each graduate on a different day. I’ve had 2 students be able attend at the same school, though you have to pay attention because it can happen in different time slots and just bring both sims there when you get the notification the first one is starting. Keep in mind that this final rotation is longer when/if you stagger enrollment, plus the extra graduation day and they get their diploma directly in their inventory at 6pm that evening, IIRC. I’m hesitant to move on until I see that.
